Producing Great Sound for Film and Video: History and Key Facts

Producing Great Sound for Film and Video: Expert Tips from Preproduction to Final Mix is a non-fiction, filmmaking handbook. It covers the process of acquiring quality sound for motion picture productions.

Author Jay Rose is an Emmy-award winning sound professional. He has won over 150 major awards including 12 Clios, and he has contributed to nearly 15,000 commercials. His work includes the MGM release Two Weeks.

The book is published by Focal Press, a media and technology publishing company. Focal Press is an imprint of the academic press Taylor & Francis.

The book was first published in 1999 under the title Producing Great Sound for Digital Video by Miller Freeman Books and was 375 pages. Seventeen years later, as of 2016, the book is in its fourth edition, and stands at 520 pages.

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